Teaching and learning for digital (multimedia) journalism June 28, 2007
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : Online, SoTL, Social networking, Teaching resources, WJEC, convergence, journalism education, learning , trackbackReflections from a syndicate at the World Journalism Education Congress — I’ve been part of a group of journalism lecturers discussing adapting journalism education to a digital age. Guy Berger from Rhodes University has blogged about this (and other points from WJEC).
The content of what we teach and what students learn (including skills) has formed a large part of discussions — but today we’ve also focused on how: teaching and learning strategies (hooray!).
I argue that teaching and learning needs to reflect more of the characteristics of digital journalism (and Web 2.0). This involves plenty of approaches and methods that have much to recommend them on proven pedagogical grounds, such as:
- collaborative and interactive student-led group projects
- open-ended assignments that foster exploration
- peer feedback and assessment
- enquiry- (or problem-) based learning (EBL/PBL)
- students negotiating their own assignments and assessment criteria
- students as fellow-explorers (even teachers)
- lecturers as facilitators of learning
- learning to make decisions on the basis of incomplete information
- business models for journalism (and ‘new media’)
- entrepreneurship skills and understanding.
I hope some of this makes it to the final session at the WJEC…
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